Megadeth's fourteenth album starts up pretty promising
with Kingmaker, but when the title track, with its crushing title, Super
Collider appears I expect a double barreled impact, but all I hear is
some viscous and weary metal, on the contrary to the title who speaks
of a particle accelerator based on high energy. This track immediately
takes the edge of the album and from that on this release never really
recovers from the damage done.

I wasn't a big fan of the band's last release and now
they climb one step further on the downward spiral staircase, away from
greatness and reliability. Similar to Th1rt3en, Super Collider have
a bunch of tracks who seem to lack a great amount of fantasy in the
songs' melodies and they just don't address to me. Still there are many
great, heavy and fantastic riffs and a truly solid overall guitar playing
all throughout, but with the absence of skilled, breathtaking and awesome
songwriting, there's no chance in hell fans to Megadeth will take this
release to their hearts and souls. Some will try and also succeed, but
that will be more die hard behavior than rational thinking.

Most of the choruses feels forced and don't appeal to
me. It's just face the facts that most bands only have a couple of huge
records in them and then they lose their youth's inspiration, their
ideas or just the knowledge of how to create awesome albums. What I
want to hear is songs with a thrust that attack all through like Dance
In The Rain and also perhaps Kingmaker and Don't Turn Your Back. Many
of the other tracks have this certain drive occasionally, but they continuously
also lose their momentum on and on. It would however be a great shame
to accuse them for having created total crap, but I totally have to
expect more from this veteran unit as well.